>From: PBrown2294@aol.com >Reply-To: GAMERIWE-L@rootsweb.com >To: GAMERIWE-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [GAMERIWE] Migration to Meriwether County >Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 00:24:15 EDT > >Hello, >I live in Meriwether County and would like to know what line you are >talking >about that migrated to Meriwether County. This is a beautiful area so I >can >see why people wanted to move here. Close to the Flint River maybe. Good >farmland. Rolling hills. Who knows? What other lines that you know are >from Meriwether County. I have been researching the Brown line.....(one of >them anyway)!!!!! >Pam Brown >============================================================ > Hiya Pam,...& All Other GA/Meriwether Co. Listservees:......I'm also NEW to this particular ListServe & was wondering if I could divert the subject thread of this Msg. temporarily/for just a momemt> -- Looking for information on a tragic housefire that took the lives of between "4 & 7"? of my maternal grandmoters children,...including one & 1/2 sets of twins!! -- My maternal grandparents lived in the White Sulfer Springs district of the county & carried the last name of REESE. (Milus/Milous & Ella D.). -- There aren't any relatives left on that side of my family that can remember any details,...not even the names of all of the children lost. -- The only surviving child from the conflagration is my uncle (Milous Reese, D.C, of Ensley, AL), who turned "90 years old" this January. -- Was wondering if there is a "newspaper morgue" for the old Geenville _VINDICATOR_ still located within the county from which I may be able to extract a copy of any article<s> that may have been posted about the fire-tragedy at the time. -- >From records I've been able to research on my own , ...out here on the West Coast,...the fire had to have had to happen after mid-1909. -- My uncle "Doc" (as "Junior"), was enumerated with my grandparents in 1910, im meriwether Co., as being approx. "6/12 " yeras old, [e.g. 6 mos. old]. -- TIA for Any and All Assistance Anyone Out There May Be Able to Provide: M. J. Ivory/SF,CA > _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com